10 filings from 1 registrant · 2021–2023 · latest filed Dec 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$590K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$590K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$590K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
8 filings
$590K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
Lindley ShererInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief/Staff, Rep. Elise Stefanik (2015-2018);
Leg Dir, Rep. Scott Tipton (2013-2014);
Leg Dir, Rep. Todd Rokita (2011-2013);
Spec Adv, Treas Dept (2007-2008);
Spec Asst, Exec Off. of the Pres (2005-2006);
Spec Asst, Off. of the VP (2002-2005)10 filingsthrough 2023
Nick MikulaInvariant LLCCovered position: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Special Assistant (2018-2021);
House Armed Services cmte:
Pro. Staff Member/Dep. Comms Dir. (2018);
Pro. Staff Member/Press Secretary (2017-2018);
Press Secretary (2015-2017)10 filingsthrough 2023
Logan Lawrence HollersInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor / Counsel, Senator Jeff Merkley (2018-2021); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (2017-2018)9 filings
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: saildrone.
3 filings
$200K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
117th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2023
2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4821118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 2605118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4663117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4664117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4686117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
through 2023
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)7 filingsthrough 2023
Mark FriedmannInvariant LLCCovered position: Director of Operations, Office of Presidential Personnel, Executive Office of the President (2016-2017);
Special Assistant to the White House Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Department of Energy (2015-2016)5 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth ThompsonInvariant LLCCovered position: Acting Team Chief for A&S, OSD/LA, Pentagon (2022); Special Asst., A&S, OSD/LA, Pentagon (2021-2022); Rep Garamendi: Sr. Defense & Foreign Policy Advisor (2019-2021); Military Leg. Asst. (2017-2019); Leg. Correspondent (2015-2017)3 filingsthrough 2023
Dena Baron SmithInvariant LLCCovered position: Subcmte Staff Dir/Clerk, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (2005-2021); Pro Staff Member/Staff Asst, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2004); Program Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1995-1999)1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
